33rd YEAR. NO. 142
ill POUCH
ASTORIA, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 23,
RECOVERED
Was Stolen at Kansas
City June 6
THIEF LEAVES JEWELRY
CHICAGO HEAT.
Hottest Day In th Year-Kills Eight
and Many Prostrations.
C1UCACO, June 22.The hotteit
day of tlic year, with mercury Hand
ing at 94 degrees, brought much
death and differing to Chicago today.
Eight deaths are reported to the cor-
oncrY office, and ieveral score of
prostration! were reported to the
Dolice. In addition a mad dog icare
spread over the city and the chief
of police ordered alt unmuzzled dog
to be ihot.
SEVERE HEAT IK THE EAST.
Over Score of People Prostrated in
New York.
RACE YAR
DEVELOPING
Nine Negroes Killed By a
Mob
NEAR HOUSTON, TEXAS
But Takes the $50,000 In Cur
rencyBag Found In Rock
Island Yards
NEW YORK, June 22-The icvere
heat wave that hat enveloped the
Eaitern States for thre day pros
trated over a acore of pcrioni in and
about New York today. No relief l
hifnre two davt ana the
A VERY MYSTERIOUS THEFT hospitals are preparing to handle any
number of heat case tomorrow, i ne
maximum today wai 86 degreei.
Lynching Followed the Killing
of Two White Men By the
Negroes
Nim Waa Arrested and Found to
Have $10,000 Worth o! Jewelry and
a Larct Sum of Money, Waa Re
leased.
KANSAS CITY, June 22.-A reg
istered mail pouch which contained
$50,000 in money and $10,000 worth
of diamonds and jewelry was stolen
from a mail car at the Union Station
here on the night of June 6, was
found this afternoon by the switch
ing crew in the yard of the Rock
Island Railway in Kansas City,
Kansas.
Tti nmu-h still contained a num
ber of valuable articles of jewelry
tut the empty envelopes which had
ontained $50,000 in currency showed
that the thief made good on the
smaller part of his haul.
The theft of the pouch is highly
mysterious. It was consigned from
Los Angeles to New York. Receipts
were shown all the way from wa
Angeles to Kansas City where the
nnurh vii lost siizht of.
The case is made more notable by
the fact that the thief slipped through
the hands of the Kansas City police.
On June 7 the detectives arrested a
negro near the depot. He was taken
irt the station and $10,000 worth of
jewelry and several hundred dollars
in money was found on him. The
negro sent for an influential lawyer
and offered him $200 if he would get
t,i ff The attorney had the
charge changed from "investigation"
to "vagrancy" the next day, and there
being no other charge the negro was
ordered to leave town.
Ten days later the federal authori
ties issued photographs of a negro
known as Charles Stephenson and
various aliases. This picture was
recognized as being that of the negro
,hn had been under arrest. The fed
eral authorities immediately struck
the negroc's trail and traced him to
Denver where the search was ap
parently dropped. A reward of $2000
has been offered by the government
for his arrest, The postoffice officials
refused to divulge the value of the
jewelry discovered, but it is believed
to be almost all of the original ship
ment, WILL WITNESS BOAT RACE.
Roosevelt and Taft to 8 Thames
Together.
NEW HAVEN, June 22,-Presi-dent
Roosevelt and Secretary Taft
will hoth witness the boat race
Thursday on the Thames. This ne
cessitatcs a change in Taft's plans for
th latter nart of the week, Roose
velt, with whom Taft and General
Luke Wright, who is to succeed Taft,
had an engagement for friday, tele
graphed today that he was coming to
the races and would not be back in
' time for the conference on Friday.
He requested Taft to change his
plans accordingly.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
THREE RIVERS, Que., June 22.
Tinned bv a hlah wind, a fire which
broke out In a stable today, destroyed
the greater oart of lower town, con
tainina the business section of the
city. Three hundred buildings burn
ed. It was necessary to send to Mon
treat. Quebec. Sherbrook and Grand
mere for assistance. The loss will
he considerably over a million dol
lars. So far no loss of life has been
reported.
FARMER SHOT AT HIS TABLE
Five Neeroes Were Hung to the
Sam Tree, While Another is Shot
to Death in an Attempt to Make
an Escape.
CONCEPTION OF DUTIES.
in Article to b Published In Collier's
Weekly.
NEW YORK, June 22,-In an
articl to be published the current
issue of Collier's Weekly, Secretary
Taft sets out his conception of duties
of office. In concluding he eulogizes
Washington and Lincoln and says:
"It remained for Roosevelt to
prove how the people wil respond to
the strong true leadership when the
hour has come for great reforms.
The policies which he inaugurated
must be continued and developed
They are right and they are policies
of the people. For that reason hit
successor may well disregard any
charge of lack of 'originality if he did
not make an entirely new program of
his now.
"The president at this time has
work before him clearly defined
Enforcement of . law, equally against
the hiah and low, the powerful and
the weak, should be his thought The
danger to our country is of laxity or
favoritism and this is the greatest
one we have to face.
He adds that the conservation of
national resources and their develop
ment must command his attention
and that he should aim to give high
tone to his administration, as Presi
dent Roosevelt has done by sur
rounding himself with eminent men.
ELLIS AN
SWERS BRYAN
i
i
Denies All the Democrats
Charges
DECEIVE LABORING MAN
Ellis Says Is Unworthy Remark
for a Candidate for Presi
dency to Make
CAPT. NYE ARRESTED
SAN FRANCISCO, June 22-Capt,
Richard Nye, for 40 years navigator
of the Pacific coast, was arrested in
Alameda yesterday for grand larceny,
the complainant being C. W, Fisher
of the Pacific Coast Whaling and
s9mihin Comoany. Fisher charges
Cantain Nve with stealing and selling
$800 worth of machinery from the
company's schooner Gayhcad , on
which he was watchman.
ROBBERS SURPRISED
Caught by Officers While Blow
IngUp Safe
ONE CAUGHT OTHER ESCAPES
Men Enter Office of the Fruitvale
Lumber Company at Oakland
Man Named Kennedy is Held toy
the Police. ,
OAKLAND, Cal, June 22.-The
safe crackers were surprised in the
office of the Fruit Vale Lumber
Company at Thirty-fifth Avenue and
East Fourteenth Street Fruitvale a
few minutes before midnight by Con
stable William Allen Deputy Con
stable B. Becker immediately they
had blown open the . company s safe
with nitro i elycerinc. The officers
dashed into the office and with drawn
revolvers and one of the cracksmen
gving the name . of Harry r Lenter
surrendered without offering resist
ance. The other escaped after being
shot in the body by Constable Allen
The police have a man named Ken
nedy under arrest who is believed to
be the other robber. Kennedy ,was
found in a dyina condition and taken
to the hospital. He denies being con
nected with the .robbery and claims
he was shot by a hold up man.
SON TO QUEEN VICTORIA.
MADRID, June 22,-A son was
born to Queen Victoria of bpain to
night, Their first son was born on
May 10, 1907. . -
HOUSTON, Texas, June 22.-Last
night nine negroes met death at the
hands of a mob in the vicinity of
Hemphill in Sabine county. Today
both races have secured arms and the
tension is such tonight that a race
clash is imminent. A lynching fol
lowed the killing of two white men
bv neeroes. Two weeks ago Hugh
Dean and several other white men
visited a neiiro church where a dance
was in progress presumably in the
quest for liquor, it being the custom
of some negroes to sell whisky dur
ing 'the progress of such affairs.
Durina the evening Dean was killed
and six negroes were neia tor me
killing. At the preliminary examina
tion there was evidence tending to
show that the plot was planed at the
dance to kill Dean.
Saturday last Aaron Johnson, a
prominent iarmer, was assassinated
while at his dining table with his
wife and child. The bullet being
fired throuehNa window. For this
crime Perry Price, a negro, was ar
rested and it is stated confessed, and
implicating Robert Wright, a relative
of one of the neeroes held tor the
Dean murder. Price declared he was
offered $5 to kill Johnson. Then fol
lowed the forming of the mob last
night, the overpowering of the jailer
and the lynching of six negroes, held
for Dean's murder. Five were hang
ed to the same tree while another
who attempted to escape was shot to
death. Later William McCoy was
shot while standing in front, of the
Johnson home, and this morning the
bodies of two more negroes were
found in the creek bottom. Wright
and Price were taken to Beaumont
for safe keeping.
MAY NOT ATTEND
HIS USUAL RECKLESSNESS
PRICE FIVE CENTS
INDICTMENTS ARRAIGNED.
In Connection With Umatilla Indian
Reservation Land Fraud.
PORTLAND, June 22.-Elcven of
the 14 defendants included in the
Umatilla Indian reservation land
fraud indictments, were arraigned
before Judge Wolverton in the
United States district court today
and given until August 1 to plead.
The defendants who were arraigned
today are: J. H Raley, John Crow,
William Slusher, Joseph H. Parkes,
Bailey Roos, John Vert, Charles
Matthias, George Adams, William
Rahe, Samuel ., Olmstead and O. P.
Bowman. One of the other three had
been served with bench warrant and
the other two failed to present aa
appearance. Robert Porter was giv
en an extension until next Monday
when he wil be arraigned. None of
the cases are likely to be set for
trial until after the so-called "Heney"
cases are disposed of late this sum
mer. It has been commented on that
these defendants are nearly all resi
dents of Pendleton, and are the fist
men to be indicted by District At
torney John McCourt who hails
from the same place, after his intro
duction to the office.
Elli Savi "Resolution is a Frank,
Clear Statement of the Republican
Parties' Position Bryan Lacks In
formation.
Senator Baily Still Sick And May Be
Unable To Go To Denver.
NEW YORK, June 22.-Friends of
Senator J. W. Baily think it very
doubtful if he will be able to take any
active part in the Denver Convention
and it may be that he will not be even
fit . to attend. . This statement was
mal in view of despatches trom
Chicago which have represented that
the sub-committee of the Democratic
National Committee had been con
siderinsr Senator Baily for the chair
m3n nt the committee on resolution.
The Senator is still in bed at the Wal
dorf and it will be at least a week or
ten days before he can go out.
FALLS 200 FEET
Joseph Randall, an Aeronaut,
at Idora Park
ONLY SLIGHTLY BRUISED
COLUMBUS, June 22. Attorney
General Ellis, who was chief author
of the Republican national platform,
replying to criticisms of W. J. Bryan
denies that the draft as published,
before the convention was changed
"With the intention to displease or
disappoint the president or Secretary
Taft."; ';' : -
Ellis says that six of the seven
omissions referred to by Bryan are
not issues before the people at this
time, and there has not been any at
tempt to make them such by the ad
ministration. The seventh, concerning
the injunctions, Ellis says Bryan's
criticisms exhibt his usual reckless
ness of the statement and his readi
ness to assume that his own lack of
information might be the prevailing
condition. Ellis says the charge that
the republican declaration was with
the intent to "Deceive the laboring
man", is "unworthy of a candidate for
the presidency."
The charee that the plank merely
declares the existing law and will
give no relief in cases where there
has been abuse is unworthy of any
lawyer who has examined the ques
tion. He says the resolution is a
frank, clear statement of the repuD
lican party's position.
SELECTION OF JURY.
Follows Denial of Motion to Dismiss
Indictment Against J. H. Booth.
PORTLAND, June 22. Following
the denial of the motion to dismiss
the indictment against James H.
Booth, ex-receiver of the land office
at Roseburg, Oregon, the selection of
the jury began this afternoon in the
United States district court and when
the case was adjourned until tomor
row four of the jurors weer chosen.
They are Henry C, Fowler, Colum
bia county; Peter Pearson, Multno
mah; Frank O'Del, Yamhill; h. Al
len, Benton.'
The iurv will be completed tomor
row and it is expected the case will
go to the jury the last part of the
present week. Booth is accused of
having accept ed $800 from F. A.
Kribs for giving advance informa
tion, concerning lands and when they
will become available for filing.
IS FOUND GUILTY
Of Embezzling Securities of a
Large Amount
Balloon Catches Fire in View of
Hundreds of People, Who Give
the Aeronaut His First Warning of
Danger.
DELEGATES LEAVE
Chicago For Denver To Attend Civil
Engineers Convention.
CHICAGO. June 22. Delegates
from Chicago and eastern cities to the
nf the American
annum vvi . ,
Society of Civil Engineers which is
to be held at Denver, left Chicago
yesterday on a special train over the
Burlimrton Railroad. The seven cars
carried 126 of the leading engineers
of the country, including President
Charles Macdonald and becretary
Chns. Warren Hunt.
One of the large questions to be
discussed bv the convention is the re
clamation work being pushed by the
United States Government.
Amona the prominent men in the
profession on .the train are C. F. Dye,
chief engineer of 'tthe 'Metropolitan
R. R. of New York; Prof. Ira Bolter,
University of Illinois; Prof A. N.
Talbot, University Illinois ana jonn
F. Wallace,' former chief engineer ot
the Panama' Canal.
OAKLAND, Cal., June 22.-Hang-ing
by his knees to the cross bar of
a burning baloon, Joseph Randall,
aeronaut at Idera Park, dropped 200
feet yesterday escaping with nothing
worse than some severe bruises. Ran
dall made the ascension in the pres
ence of hundreds of persons. Atter
rising about 200 feet the spectators
below saw the baloon catch tire, ana
the shout of horrow which met his
ears was the first notification Randall
received of his danger.
He tried to free his parachute but
was too late as before he could get
it in working order the baloon envel
oped in flames dropped on the roof
of the Parker Theater whence Ran
dall jumped to the earth, leanding
there with only a few bruises.
TAFT COMING WEST.
ST PATTt" Tune 22. Henry W.
Taft, the brother to Secretary Taft,
the nominee for president, accom
panied by Mrs. Taft, Miss Louise
Taft and W. H. Taft, Jr., left tonight
for Yellowstone Park, Portland and
Seattle.
BASEBALL GAMES.
American League.
At Cleveland Cleveland 2, Phila
delphia 9.
At Detroit Detroit 4, Chicago 1.
National League.
At New York New York 7, Chi
cago I.
At Pittsburg Pittsburg 0, Cincin
nati 4. '
At Brooklyn Brooklyn 1, Phila
delphia 0.
At Boston Boston 1, St. Louis 0.
Northwest League.
At Seattle Seattle 5, Butte 6.
TAFT BUSY.
Visits Yale University, Makes Ad-
" dress.
NEW HAVEN, June 22.-Secre-tary
Taft returned to Yale his alma
mater today to attend the reunion of
his class of 78. Although his inten
tions were to join his classmates as
"Taft of 78," he found " himself the
guest of the commencement exer
cises and he scarcely entered the uni
versity buildings before he took up
the duties as a member of the corpo
ration. The Secretary addressed the
law and medical schools, attended a
corporation meeting and addressed
the alumni. Besides these, he was a
guest at a private function.
W. J. BART NESS OF FRISCO
Former Vice-President of the Cali
fornia Safe Deposit Company Jury
Out 50 Minutes Reach Verdict on
First Ballot
SAN FRANCISCO, June 22.
Walter J. Bartnett, the former vice
president of the California Safe De
posit Company and Administrator of
the Colton estate was found guilty
of embezzling securities to the value
of $31,700 this afternoon. The jury
was out less than SO minutes, and
reached the verdict on the first bal
lot. Mercy was recommended.
Judge Conley will fix the sentence
on June 30.
The greater part of the day was
occupied in closing arguments of the
prosecution and defense. Assistant
District Attorney tooK spoKe ior
the people in the morning and was
followed by Attorney Cooper, for
Rartnett. Attorney Geary made the
principal argument for Bartnett this
i afternoon and Cook closed. Cook
portrayed Bartnett as a coward who
carried on his nefarious dealings De
hing J. Dalzell Brown, and his own
brother-in-law, James Tread well.
The main atempt of the attorneys
for the defense, has fixed the blame
on Brown who is already convicted.
Bartnett received the verdict coolly
showing but little emotion.